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few things more terrifying to me rn than seeing gen z boys increasingly and gleefully commenting “your body, my choice” on young women’s tiktoks
Toronto is experiencing summer weather in last week of October and our premier is proposing we rip up bike lanes and give more space to cars. Seems fine.
Ontario Premier promises to take bike lanes off Bloor. Inbox, BIA repping 270 businesses there says they: "a firm believer in the actual evidence that concludes that bike lanes on Bloor Street are good for business, improve safety for all road users, and reduce congestion"
The University bike lanes that Ford says he’s ripping out were specifically requested by the CEOs of the hospitals they front so that their nurses, doctors, and staff could get to and from work safely.
NEW: Just one day after the Ford government tabled legislation to review all existing bike lanes in Ontario, the premier is strongly suggesting the decision on at least three routes has already been made. “They’re coming out.” globalnews.ca/news/10825146/… #Onpoli
I think about this graphic every time I cross a street in the U.S.
NEW: THREAD: A new ruling from Judge McBurney in Georgia overturning the abortion ban and allowing the procedure to continue has some REMARKABLE quotes. Let's take a look at just a few. 1/
Glorious. This is fun to watch. And yes, drivers, cyclists and pedestrians pay the same tax for snow removal, among other things. So why are roads prioritized over others?
this is absolutely glorious - mayor of quebec city slaps down a very silly question from a journalist about taxing cyclists
I asked the provinces if they think housing is a human right, and plan to make rules protecting that right. Quebec sent this: "Do I ghost her again? Otherwise, a general response that doesn't answer, to say housing is a priority for our government?" thestar.com/news/canada/ca…
BREAKING: Israel has now killed 15,780 Palestinian children in Gaza, in just 200 days. That’s 79 children killed per day, every single day, for nearly 7 months straight. Read that again.
Democracies don’t send militarized forces after students who are exercising their constitutional right to protest.
DPS appears to be prepping to disperse with a heavy, heavy showing of DPS troopers prepped in riot gear.
A pilot in Vancouver that provided unconditional cash to homeless people not only saved more money than it cost, it also reduced drug and alcohol use by 39%. In the India UBI pilot, where entire villages got UBI, drug and alcohol use went down by 12% compared to control villages.
"My homelessness is not b/c of my drug use, my drug use is because of my homelessness," guy told me in downtown DC last month. In 2023, I was in Missouri. The state had passed a law criminalizing outdoor camping, same kind of law being debated Monday at SCOTUS (10/x)
If you earn $350k because you're a doctor, save lives, and do real productive work, you pay $140k in taxes. If you buy an investment property, do literally nothing to it, then sell it for $350k more than you paid for it, you pay $55k* in taxes. *presuming no other income
Just found out a friend is selling off an investment property because of the 🇨🇦 government raising the captial gains tax. How many more will rush to sell before the June 25th deadline?
Yesterday, a cyclist was killed by the driver of a Dodge Ram pickup in East Van. People will use the word "accident" but this didn't need to happen. A long list of policy failures got us here. This thread will document these failures 🧵 vancouversun.com/news/local-new…
BREAKING: Israel has now killed 15,370 Palestinian children in Gaza, in just 180 days. That’s 85 children killed per day, every single day, for 6 months straight. Read that again.
When I looked into why the government isn’t fulfilling its promise to implement automatic tax filing, I couldn’t think of any good reason for them not to; but I did find a bad reason 🧵
Canadians who are unable to file their taxes miss out on over $1 billion annually in government benefits and social supports like the Canada Child Benefit. @ericashiner of @FairTaxCanada on how the tax industry is keeping automatic filing out of reach. canadiandimension.com/articles/view/…
On Shein: - Their clothes are 65% polyester (double Zara & H&M!) - - Laundering polyester is responsible for ~35% of the microplastics in the ocean - They ship between 2-3 billion items a year - Their emission grew by 52% last year - They've 10x'ed their lobbying spend in…
You can see the oil sands from outer space, that’s how destructive they are. But when it comes renewables, suddenly we’re concerned about “pristine viewscapes.” This isn’t about the land at all, it’s about an ideological battle to continue lining the pockets of Big Oil.
Swaths of land in Alberta will be barred from hosting renewable power projects under sweeping new rules. The changes include buffer zones around “pristine viewscapes,” no builds on good quality ag land and new reclamation bonds #ableg #cdnpoli #cdnecon theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…
Alabama ruled frozen embryos are children. Meanwhile, Alabama eliminated its summer food program for children who’ve actually been born.
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Two years ago scientists published a major report warning humans would not be able to adapt to extreme climate change impacts by mid-century. Zero headlines. Now global warming is accelerating. Zero headlines. Adaptation? Feared to become impossible by 2035- 2045. Zero headlines.
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